Enhanced Charge Injection Through Nanostructured Electrodes for Organic Field Effect Transistors

Nanosphere lithography is used to process nanopore-structured electrodes, which are applied into the fabrication of bottom-gate, bottom-contact configuration organic field effect transistors (OFETs) to serve as source/drain elecrodes. The introduction of this nanopore-structure electrode facilitates the forming of nanopore-structure pentacene layers with small grain boundaries at the electrode interface, and then reduces the contact resistance, contact-induces the growth of pentacene and accordingly improves the mobility of charge carriers in the OFETs about 20 times as compared with results in literature through enhancing the charge carrier injection. It is believed that this structure of electrode is a valuable approach for improving organic filed effect transistors.